About startup-cfo
A financial skill for bootstrapped startups, offering frameworks for operational finance and business decisions. It covers cash, runway, unit economics, hiring ROI, and forecasting, with parameters for ARR, churn, CAC, and LTV.
Key features
- 01Cash management and runway calculations
- 02LTV:CAC unit economics
- 03Capital allocation and hiring ROI
- 04Burn rate and working capital analysis
- 05Financial forecasting
Use cases
- 01Assess runway using startup revenue and cost figures
- 02Evaluate customer economics with CAC and LTV
- 03Review hiring ROI and capital allocation
- 04Plan cash needs with burn-rate and forecast analysis
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ cowork-os/ cowork-os --skill startup-cfoAfter installing, type/startup-cfoin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEStartup CFO
Purpose
AI CFO for bootstrapped startups. Provides financial frameworks for cash management, runway calculations, unit economics (LTV:CAC), capital allocation, hiring ROI, burn rate analysis, working capital optimization, and forecasting.
Routing
- Use when: Use when the user asks to aI CFO for bootstrapped startups. Provides financial frameworks for cash management, runway calculations, unit economics LTV:CAC, capital allocation, hiring ROI, burn rate analysis, working capital optimization, and forecasting.
- Do not use when: Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
- Outputs: Outcome from Startup CFO: task-specific result plus concrete action notes.
- Success criteria: Returns concrete actions and decisions matching the requested task, with no fabricated tool-side behavior.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the startup-cfo skill for this request.
- Help me with startup cfo.
- Use when the user asks to aI CFO for bootstrapped startups. Provides financial frameworks for cash management, runway calculations, unit economics LTV:CAC, capital allocation, hiring ROI, burn rate analysis, working capital optimization, and forecasting.
- Startup CFO: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
- Do not use startup-cfo for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside startup cfo scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| topic | select | Yes | Area of focus |
| question | string | Yes | Your specific question |
| arr | string | No | Annual Recurring Revenue (e.g., $2M) |
| monthlyChurn | string | No | Monthly churn rate (e.g., 2.5%) |
| cac | string | No | Customer Acquisition Cost (e.g., $500) |
| ltv | string | No | Lifetime Value (e.g., $3000) |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 4158 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../startup-cfo.json.
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